Show DRESS OUT OF SIGHT I DescribJ How New York Women Describe Their Dainty Underwear 1 WHAT DO YOU DRESS FOR MADAM j VIews of Mrs Paran Stevens Mrs Xoslle and Fanline Hall Jn Reference to Female Fe-male Unm ntionBblcs Paris Is no longer the home ot the daintiest daint-iest most luxurious and the most perfectly developed worshiper of fashion She has como to New York and taken up her abode In our midst whence her edict will go forth to the uttermost parts of tho land It is for her rather than for all the doctors doc-tors of Gotham to say whether we shall shiver in silks or shudder In flannels and I have prepared a symposium of her views the politicians would call it taking a straw You may Judge for yourself whose fashion you will follow or whether v you will Inaugurate your own particular lad At any rate dont fail to note the nice discriminations here sins LESLIES ISVESTIOJT IN SILK AXD WOOL Mrs Leslie believes in feminine independence inde-pendence and individual preferences Let me show you an idea of my own carried into execution said she tossing aside the marvels of her Parisian outfit and drawing forth a practical looking combination gar maul This is what I wear in cold weather It is woven in part silk and part line wool to the waist and after that it is all silk It is low necked and anor sleeved because I dress quite decollete in the evening Now heres my favarlte silk shirt lined to the knee with flannel and quilted from the knee down Anything warm about the waist is nonsense Do I approve ap-prove of the JennessMiller garments Oh they arc are horribly stiff silk is not nice either Wash ilk garments are by no means the daintiest most comfortable or moat SE ESIILT THETKS REFORM IS IW THH unhealthful un-healthful a woman can wear You will find that the most correct woman will wear lawns and cambrics for everything but skirts I wear them all the year and when I have to put on my idea in silk and wooL I dont like it but since I dont want to grow old I cant afford to shiver Now I am going to tell you that you must be healthfully dressed in winter before you can be comfortable and pretty EB ILlTVr E EHILT SATS PRETTT USDEIl WEAR IS NOT A VITAL NECESSITY Dr Emily has given the subject of underwear un-derwear her attention from a standpoint quite distant from those occupied by our fair actresses and litterateurs She has gone into it scientifically rather than artistically I artis-tically end her conversation with me was liannelly instead of flimsy My first question was about healthful underwear hI think it should be of flannel in winter she said without hesitation and it must be both light and warm and of excellent quality of wooL It should carefully cover the body with an even warmth from neck to ankles But what shall a woman do tvben her gown must bo decollete Well its imprudent at best but if she will be foolish enough to change her underwear she must take extra precaution against cold What garment now on the market do you consider the best Dr Jaegers sanitary garment It is light warm and complete There is another good idea in the union garment worn over black silk tights That is what 1 wear without any skirt at all you understand You cant guess how comfortable it IS Comfortable Com-fortable it may be but certainly neither pretty nor becoming I judcel I cant sea what particular difference differ-ence tbat makes I think it is more important to have a well distributed distrib-uted warmth over your body than to have it all around your waist and hips with arms and shoulders bared becomingly f There certainly ought to be a revolution in 1 dress and winter underwear How many women dress as warmly as I dot And yetI yet-I wear only two garments and neither of these is a skirt Such radical common sense quite took my breath away Apropos have you noticed no-ticed that a woman invariably attributes any such failure to aomacause impalpable MRS PARAS BTEVEKS DRESSES HAXDEOSIELT ASD BEN6IBLT Mrs Stevens is described as dressing with a perfect taste and an adaptability to the most ultra fashion and the most bitter cast wind It is the tendency to wear lighter thinner and more compact underwear under-wear each winter and Mrs Stevens with other leaders of fashion is it is needless I I PATOISE HALT TVEABS TIGHTS OFF THE STAGE to say wearing light this and compact undergarments un-dergarments Yet BO beautifully woven and so fine in texture are they that the wearers are quite as warm as they would be in fuzzy camphor permeated woolen things which careful dames used to unpack at the first cool breath of winter Mrs Stevens dresses with a light smooth yielding warmth produced by three or at most four undergarments First the union suit which by tho way la wonderfully popular and with more reasons for it than many crazes can boast Then come the silk tights of quality so fine and clinging that the entire form is fitted without a disturbing fold Of course the petticoats are of silkone short the l other long I Mrs Stevens does not wear wash silk I chemises Thoso are not considered quite I i the thing now Her substitute is the old fanciful JBolen waist or the practical silk jersey worn especially by driving women for the warmth m its long sleeves > She wears much lawn and many lace trimmed cambric With tights and the union garment gar-ment to furnish warmth fancy may hare her way with the further costuming of the it fashionable person PAULINE HALL WZAES TIGHTS ALL THE TIME Off the stage she calls them equestriennes equestri-ennes which is only another name for one i garment I have already twice described This consensus of opinions bringing us < to practical issues isnt itl And I really I I believe it will benefit the public to know i BOW ieasible it is to olothe ones self com fortably bautlfully and becomingly I But to return to Pauline I o f 1 She doesnt dress so very differently from Dr Emily that is on general principles princi-ples of underwear but she dons her garments gar-ments with a view to a certain taut trimness trim-ness of fit which keep smooth the pretty in ell of embonpoint When I questioned her she said she didnt know whether she dressed like any body else or not I wear the Equestrienne Equestri-enne a silk thing more like tigats than any other comparison I can think of It is low necked short sleeved and it comes to my Knees Then with my silk skirt on Im ready for winter and I can bo warm too i1l wear a heavy fur coat added Puritans star From linen to silk is my only concession conces-sion to winter People in my profession must be reculess Thats the onlyvay to be careful Do I ever wear flannel No mercy no The touch of it is horrid I had meant to ask her what she thought of silk chemises Im interested in finding women differ eo radically abqijt itbut J forgot because Mia Hall began telling me ot Puritanias struggle with a censorious cen-sorious press But the play is succeeding l 7 e4 v TIGHTS AND UNION SUITS VERSUS THE PETTICOAT PETTI-COAT so well that the actress ought to keep warm with the praise she receives of course aided by her Equestriennes DELLA FOX PHILOSOPHIZES UPON THE QUESTION QUES-TION Delia Fox whom I saw In her jaunty yachting costume behind the scenes of the Broadway theatre gave me views from an actress standpoint She spoke with a laughing vigor and she defied de-fied hygienic principles of seasonable un derclothing Do 1 think women should wear flannel garments in winter Well that might do for lame women but I cant bother that way dontyou see It wouldnt be safe to wearwhat do you call those dreadful things Jonness Miller isnt it1aU day and then expose myself during the evening when I must change my costume so often There is noth ing like silk I think Its sweller than anything else you buy and cooler and lighter Those dainty little Marguerites in white or tinted silks I just dote on and I wear them all the year round When I asked if she were not afraid of catching cold and harming her voice with carelessness she laughingly retorted re-torted I dont believe tbe neck hand kerchief idea By and by you get up to your ears in wraps and then where are you No my undergarments are all silk and all low necked Then when I put on an evening dross I bathe my neck in sonie kind of spirits and am perfectly safe If a woman is dressed becomingly shes sure to feel comfortable and If shes both pretty and comfortable she cant help being healthful Then the stage manager spoke to Della and she hurried away nodding nod-ding brightly and saying Did I tell you every thing you wanted to known |